Policies that dampen your spirits

Oct 15, 04

Keppel Corporation is among the first companies in Singapore to create a policy to protect whistle blowers (Search for ?Making every Keppelite accountable’)

While such policies are supposed to represent enlightened management, I can?t help but feel that organizations should be focusing on creating a culture that thrives on trust, integrity and openness.
The need ?to protect whistle blowers? would become redundant if only leaders spent more time to

Practise and demonstrate values of trust and integrity

Create space for dialogue and interaction

Create an environment for respect and understanding

When Warren Buffet stepped in to bail out Saloman Brothers in the year 1990, these are the words he used to address Saloman?s managers on the standards he would use:
?Anything not only on the line, but near the line, will be called out.?

His test of integrity was very simple:

He asked employees to apply the ‘newspaper test’ to their every decision: Would they be prepared to read whatever they were about to do in a local paper, “there to be read” by “spouse, children, and friends”?

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